Grand Opening Celebration

Hope to see you there!!!

Are you Darcy’s Botanicals biggest fan??

Thanks to you - all of our wonderful fans - we have reached 

over 2,000 facebook fans!! To celebrate this we are having a giveaway!!  

(3)lucky fans will receive (2) of their favorite DB products!! 

How do you enter, you ask? 

Post a quick video to our fan page: www.facebook.com/DarcysBotanicalsLLC 

stating why YOU are the biggest Darcy’s Botanicals fan. 3 winners will be 

chosen on Friday, July 6th. 

Happy posting!!

New Address Coming Soon!!!

The cat's out of the bag. LOL Check out our new location coming very soon!!!

Here's an article that was done by our local editor,

http://westcobb.patch.com/articles/another-business-moving-into-downtown-powder-springs#photo-9284789

Please leave a comment on the article to welcome us to our new address!

Thanks to all of you for making this possible for us! We have a lot of new things 

in store to better enhance your customer service experience. 

So check back often for more exciting news :)

Best in Beauty for Natural Hair

We got another feature! Our Daily Leave In Conditioner was picked as one of the best in beauty products  for natural hair :)

Thank you to Sage Naturalceuticals and Jones Magazine for the feature!!!

Atlanta World Natural Hair Show Weekend Events

As many of you know, the Atlanta World Natural Hair Show is a major event for naturals! Many will be coming to Atlanta to attend not only the hair show, but many other events and parties as well.

Thanks you to our gorgeous facebook fans for giving us the names of other events they will be attending.

So here goes....

Natural Girls Rock Anniversary Party

Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 5:00 PM (Eastern) 

http://www.naturalgirlsrock.com/  

They will be live streaming it too!

*Must purchase ticket to attend 

World Natural Hair Party Affair 

Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 6:00 PM

http://www.naturalhairshow.org/partyaffair.html

*Must purchase ticket to attend

Dirty Girl Mud Run

Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood

2002 Lakewood Way, Atlanta, GA 30315

Saturday, April 28,2012 @ 8am - 6pm

So get dirty for a good cause. 

To register and see all locations, visit http://www.godirtygirl.com/

2012 Walk for Lupus Now
Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Check In: 3 pm
Walk Starts: 5 pm  
http://www.lupuswalkatlanta.com

I'll come back and list more as I hear of them.

 

Atlanta World Natural Hair Show 2012

It's that time of year again ladies!!!!

 

The Atlanta World Natural Hair Show kicks off this weekend with plenty of naturals visiting the city. Many of you who are visiting will probably want to know about all of the happenings that are going on in the city as well.

We won't be able to attend this year and will instead have a 

Customer Appreciation Sale on April 27 -29!!!

The sale discount will be 25% off using the coupon code: thankyou.

Many curlies and naturals are having natural hair meet ups and other events throughout the city. Lots of events and parties will be taking place during this weekend.

Stay tuned to this page as I will come back and list the events that I know of and can find.

 I will also list some places to eat while you're in town ;)

Do any of you have any events that you would like for me to list here? 

UPDATE:  Atlanta World Natural Hair Show 2012 - Places to Eat

Here are a few recommendations from our fellow team member Hayley:

Michon's Smokehouse

1583 Virginia Ave

Atlanta, GA 30337 

404.766.7770

http://www.michons.com/

Brake Pad

3403 Main St

College Park, GA 30337 

404.766.1515

brakepadatlanta.com

Simon's Steak & Seafood

3520 Main St
College Park, GA 30337

(404) 768-0143

http://www.giovannasitaliankitchen.com/

I personally have never tried the food at any of these yet, 

but do trust Hayley's judgement on this:) 

These are for those of you who want to stay close to the Georgia Convention Center. 

Other native Atlantans... please feel free to mention or review others in College Park.

 

Pinterest Anyone?

My sister turned me on to Pinterest quite a few months ago. I was hesitant at first, but am now loving it as a resource for inspiration and knowledge!

Just in case you are wondering, Pinterest is a social media dream board (so to speak) of things that interest you:) You can pin various images to your board and repin images from others that may interest you as well.

I have found some amazing crockpot recipes, organizational ideas, fashion tips, etc.

We will be setting up our board really soon and will come back and post a link when it's ready.

I just need to figure out how to create more boards so you all can get to view things that interest us:) Check out the repins done thus far here.

Jason Wu Collection for Target

I absolutely LOVE it when Target collaborates with high end designers! If you don't know already, Jason Wu's collection for Target is due out this Sunday, February 5th. I think Target was totally genius for getting designers to create more affordable quality pieces.


Thanks to our lovely first lady, Michelle Obama, for putting him on the map :)

I saw a few pieces from the collection that I am really itching to get into my closet. However, I don't want to get my hopes up too high.

The last time Target featured a major designer (i.e. cough ... Missoni), it was a total nightmare! People crashed the website and practically emptied out ALL of the stores. Yes, you read this right. A lot of it went straight to Ebay with higher price tags.

 The only thing that I was able to get my hands on from that line were a few candles which I gave to my sister. The only thing I really wanted from the line was some luggage.

Hopefully, I will be able to get a few pieces this time around. Will see!

Site Updates in Progress

Just wanted to let everyone know that we have had our web programmer working on our site to install much needed updates and other site additions.

Sorry for any confusion this may have caused:(

We are trying to make some wonderful new additions to our site to make it waaaayyyy more informative for everyone.

We will spend the next few weeks adding some how-to slideshows, video tutorials, blog updates, and photos for the image gallery.

UPDATE: Looks like it's going to be another long day! I have to go in and manually add coupon codes, old site settings, etc. All of this is before I can upload the new site additions. If you do encounter any problems on the site, please email us so that can take care of you:) We appreciate your patience during this time:)

Thank you as always for your patience and support!

Organization Time!!!!

Yes, it's that time again. Time to get organized and be really serious about it this time:) I have enlisted the help of one of my really great friends (Debbie) to help me organize my work space. Debbie just happens to be a personal organizer and a good one at that.

Since I have been getting more buzz and more orders for our products, I had to find a way to make looking for everything more productive and efficient. I realized that I was spending way more time searching for everything, instead of mixing, preparing, & packaging products. I was also ordering the same things twice (yes, I have that much stuff) because I had no real system in place to locate everything quickly. So something had to give.

Here's a picture of some of the progress that has been made so far. This is my packing station:) I have to work with the limited amount of space I have available. This is actually in my den/office space area. The bag hanging on the rack is a laundry bag filled with the eco-shreds that I use for packing!!! This idea came from Debbie.

I will post the pics of how we organized all of my containers as soon as we get them labeled, etc. We spent the weekend building the shelves (thanks to my brother Ken as well) in the garage area for all of my containers. It looks soooo nice already!

We also organized all of my essential oils in alphabetically ordered containers. This alone has saved me some much needed valuable time. My butters are in there place and the oils are all in one. We are also organizing my herbs, emulsifiers, preservatives & additives, etc. I could truly go on and on, but do not want to bore you. LOL

Now it's your turn to get organized. Where would you like to start?

Brazilian Ucuuba Butter Revisited???

Years ago (probably 2 or so ago) I purchased a small quantity of Ucuuba Fruit Butter from one of my favorite suppliers. When I opened the jar, the stuff smelled really earthy and smokey to me. I immediately made a mental note that the odor of this butter would probably be very hard to mask. I then shoved it back into my supply cabinet of products that would go dusty and never thought about it again until recently.

I visit one supplier's site and see that this butter is getting rave reviews. I immediately wanted to kick myself for not testing some recipes with it first before shelving it away.

It is said to be a very moisturizing and non-greasy butter for use in soaps, hair products, lotions, and candles (due to it's somewhat waxy nature). According to Amazonia Preciosa by Surya, "it (has) the ability to hydrate and shape curls whilst controlling frizz. A google search shows that it may be trending towards products for curly hair. Interesting, huh?

So now I have to place yet another order for the butter (because the other one is really old) so I can test it further. I can't wait to soap it and try is as a hair butter:)

I have already tried just about every type of Amazon oil & butter I could think of thanks to The Body Shop. If you can get your hands on some, also try the muru muru butter, cupuacu butter, and other precious oils from Brazil.

I have a few goodies that I need to release that will contain Acai Fruit Oil, Tucuma butter and more. Life is grand:)

Darcy's Botanicals Website Coming Soon!

I am STILL listing all of my products on my official site (www.darcysbotanicals.com) as well as etsy. I am so thrilled that my site is finally secured and ready for me to load everything. I have been at the mercy of web designers for over (2) months now. The final designer, did an excellent job and I am forever grateful to him.

My intent was to start out with my dot com site. Since I had some web design work that needed to be done first, I opened an etsy shop in October '08. I didn't officially list and start selling until the 2nd week of December '08. In less than a month's time, I have garnered to date a total of 38 sales!!! Which is pretty good if I must say so myself. They say everything happens for a reason. I am grateful to etsy because it gave me a medium for getting my name out to the public.

I can now appreciate the delays with my main site now:) Many, many thanks to all the folks that purchased and liked our treats. I am just as grateful to you as well for allowing a single mom to be able to pursue her dream.

Apricot Kernel Hair & Body Bar

This is a picture of the very first soap I made years ago. I was so proud of how it came out considering. It was hard for me to part with them.

100% Pure Coconut Cleansing Bar

Look at my beautiful 100% Pure Coconut Cleansing Bars. Yep, you heard me correctly:) I used only (1) oil with a small amount of Island Musk fragrance that I had on hand.

Contrary to the belief that too much coconut oil can be drying, these have a soft creamy lather that leaves my hands and body feeling moisturized. I superfatted soap at a higher percentage to offset the drying effects.

My daughter & I have been using it quite a bit and it has become one of my favorites:)